Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport withjohn watson, womens golf and the first day of the solheim cup. Yes, europe holed a one point advantage after the opening foursomes, with the fourball is now under way. Thank you very much. And darren has all the Weather Forecast for us this evening. It is looking a pretty picture. Will it deliver . Yes, it is lovely. Lots of sunshine gcioss yes, it is lovely. Lots of sunshine across the uk today and tomorrow. You probably wouldnt want to change that, but in japan, you probably wouldnt want to change that, but injapan, they are trying to change the weather. More on the latest attempt later. Thank you very much. Also coming up. A bumpersummer up. A bumper summer for butterflies. A once in a decade mass emergence of painted ladies saw nearly half a million recorded across the uk. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. Im martine croxall. Downing street has announced that borisjohnson will go to luxembourg on monday to hold talks with the pr
Former dallas fed president Richard Fisher is with us live and we are hours from a key report from netflix. Which way is this stock going to move the Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. A lot of good questions there. Of course, its good to have you with us on this wednesday. We have a very good Investment Committee as usual for you jim leventhal, steve weis, jonny in najarian. Not for investors, not for today. Csx shares derailed. Investors suffering their worst day in more than a decade. A lot to unpack here lets get to frank who has been following the story since last night. You were just talking about economic indicators. The economy is strong. Retail sales strong. Unemployment at record lows. Inflation not a worry. But their new fears of a freight recession. Now csx, lowering guidance from 1 to 2 growth to a 1 to 2 decline, largely due to weaker demand for domestic and export coal and the everpresent trade tensions first half volumes fell 4 ce
I mean, these figures for trade are actually even worse than economists had anticipated in terms of exports. Its the weakest data since back in february 2020, when china, of course, was right in the thick of the pandemic. Why is this data so bad . Well, its mainly to do with chinas customers abroad. Theyre really struggling with high inflation, high Interest Rates. So theyre spending less money on chinese goods. And if youre a policymaker in beijing, well, its difficult to say what you should do about that. You cantjust force other countries to start buying more of your goods. But theres also more to contend with. If you look at the spending within china, thats also looking not very encouraging at the moment. Tomorrow, were expecting some more figures to be coming out, which will probably show Deflation Prices actually going down in china. Thats a bit more difficult to explain. But there are some people who think that chinas Zero Covid Policy went on for so long that customers just are
Was in a technical recession in the second half of 2023. Lets speak to carsten brzeski, global head of macro for ing research. Let me put back to you. What we learn from these figures about the health of the eurozone . We learn from these figures about the health of the eurozone . Health of the eurozone . We learn that the euro health of the eurozone . We learn that the euro zone health of the eurozone . We learn that the euro zone Economy Health of the eurozone . We learn that the Euro Zone Economy is. That the Euro Zone Economy is growing. On the back of the mild winter weather, we have had a bounce backin winter weather, we have had a bounce back in construction activity. We also saw that other things i do in better than expected. It is good for the euro is good for the eurozone economy. In the Fourth Quarter of last year growth was revised down. It does not mean that we are completely Out Of The Woods yet. We are going to see growth this year, but it will be a poor growth in europe
December 201st. Erin como watching the roads, seeing whats going on out there. Got you covered. And mike thomas talking about weather. Good morning. Good morning. The good news for those drivers is that the cold is all you have to worry about today. Other than that were expecting sunny skies and temperatures later on this afternoon in the 40s. Hey, erin. Huge problems in centreville. Downed power lines and an overturned tractortrailer. 28 at 66 all lanes blocked. We have your work arounds. If youre just waking up at 5 00 a. M. A lot of breaking news to talk about and we start with this. A vehicle rammed into a crowd in australia today injuring more than a dozen people. Police say this was not an accident and some suspects are in custody. Our Melanie Alnwick is monitoring the latest developments in our news room. Mel. Reporter good morning. Just a short time ago police told reporters on the ground they believe this was not this was a deliberate act. Two men have been arrested, one were